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My men have become women, but the women men.

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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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My men have become women, but the women men.

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